Rikki Keag
Northern Irish international badminton player
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Rikki Keag (born c.1961), is a former international badminton player from Northern Ireland who competed at two Commonwealth Games and was a four-time champion of Ireland.
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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | c.1961[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Badminton | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Alpha BC, Lisburn | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Keag attended Friends' School, Lisburn and was a member of the Alpha Badminton Club in Lisburn.[2]
Keag was a doubles specialist and partners included his brother-in-law Bill Thompson,[3] Liam McKenna and Peter Ferguson in men's doubles.[4]
Keag represented the 1986 Northern Irish team[5] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,[6] where he competed in the three events.[7] He went to a second Commonwealth Games after being selected for the 1986 Northern Irish team[8] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[9] where he competed in three events.[10]
Keag was a four-time Irish champion at the Irish National Badminton Championships, winning the men's doubles in 1982, 1985 and 1988[11] and the mixed doubles with Ann Stephens in 1986.[12]
He retired from badminton in 1989, partly due to a persistent back injury.[13]